Welcome to episode 131 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. And it’s welcome back to the podcast the first third-time guest, Emily Writes. She was first on in the very early days of the pod, back at episode # 14. And her first repeat-turn was for episode # 52, […]

Welcome to episode 116 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one’s a conversation I had with Mark Cubey. His most recent job was managing Writers & Readers as part of the NZ Festival. Before that, for more than a decade, he was the producer of Saturday Mornings on […]

I’m ending comments on Off The Tracks. I am, as usual, behind the times. Loads of sites have long ago ended comments – noticing of course that social media channels are the place for discussion. And while that’s true for Off The Tracks too – the real reason I’m (finally) doing away with comments here […]

Do you ever stop to consider the changes that have been made to the way you find music? Is your approach still the same? Surely it’s changed, you’ve changed formats, the formats have changed – in terms of delivery approach, in terms of regularity, in terms of how and when you receive them – as […]

So Sad Today: Personal Essays Melissa Broder Grand Central Publishing Anyone writing personal essays probably worries about the tumble over into indulgence. Here the book isn’t subtitled “Personal Essays” to merely spell it out – at least I assume that’s not the case, rather because the title So Sad Today started as an anonymous Twitter […]

Welcome to episode 31 of Sweetman Podcast brought to you by Phantom Billstickers. This one is a conversation with Jonny Potts – a Wellington-based comedian. You can follow him on Twitter where he tweets jokes and asides and pop-cultural commentary/comedy as/at Faster Camels – @fastercamels.

During the New Zealand Festival we get a clue about the upcoming Jazz Festival. This year the news is that Wayne Shorter (and his quartet, featuring the incredible Brian Blade) will be performing at Wellington’s Opera House on June 8. Shorter, Blade, John Patitucci and Danilo Perez will put on an incredible show, Shorter, 82, […]

This film about The Doors was playing in the Film Festival and I wasn’t planning to see it. Though I like The Doors (most of the time – anyway). But what I remember best about this was that I scored the ticket through Twitter. Maybe I was quite new to Twitter at that point actually […]

Jonny Potts is a Wellington writer and performer. His award-winning stand-up show Loose: A Private History of Booze & Iggy Pop 1996-2015 returns to BATS Theatre 19-22 August. He is the host of the podcasts The Year of Reading Massively and The Witching Hours. He’s on some form of stage around Wellington as often as […]

People will tell you that we no longer need reviewers – that everyone is the reviewer now. And, sure, social media offers that function, it gives people a plot of virtual land to set up their lemonade stand. But with so many people giving it away for free it’s important to remember that social media […]